Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 8

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « The faux driftwood that made up the furniture of Nonah's spare bedroom reminded me of a game Kavuush and I had played. Kavuush wasn't much for games, but this game taught people how to survive with minimal...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 4

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « Broken. Immobile. Bored. Seconds crawled by because I was still running with a heightened sense of time. The FCAT's four legs were sprawled out in every direction. Its tail was curled down: evidence of the...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 14

» » _Gualmeeta Habitat, Earth-Moon L5_ « « Layered slices of avocado covered Kavuush's open-face sourdough sandwich like the scales of a giant lizard. I sprinkled them with garlic salt and pepper before laying fried eggs on top. Kavuush groped,...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 13

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « Simulated morning light spilled in through my bedroom window adding warmth to the hospital-white walls. Jaahkah had playfully kicked me out once we'd both had our fill of sex. She promised we'd get to chat...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 9

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « The window of my office looked out over a heptagonal courtyard that broke up the crumpled polygonal pile that was Animsys headquarters. In the center of the heptagon was a circular path that intersected...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 5

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « Harry's tail flicked in frustration as he addressed the dragon on the other side of the interrogation room door. "Sorry, you'll have to go through the proper channels. Come back when you have paperwork." He...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 10

» » _Gualmeeta Habitat, Earth-Moon L5_ « « Clouds were filling the sky as I exited Zutraas's building. Her cybersecurity department was still examining the packet sniffer that had been found on her supercomputer. I would've stayed, but her...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 2

» » _Kamehameha Station, Asteroid Belt_ « « Darkness greeted my eyes. Not a complete darkness, a darkness effused with a thin edge of light. The crest at the top of my head couldn't move because of the KREEPcrete it was pressing against. My breasts...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 6

The word "subway" would've been used, but space habitats loved to rename things to remind people they were indeed in space. common sense was no match for marketing. as i dipped underground, i was giddy with energy.

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 3

» » _WeiCast Station, Earth-Moon L5_ « « The vagueness of dreams provides a canvas for recontextualizing my life. My race calls this gihan deveesk thalam sa, seeking truths in smoke. Staring at rising smoke while trying to see shapes in it is our...

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Ecstasy or Oblivion - Session 11

» » _Gualmeeta Habitat, Earth-Moon L5_ « « Rahkseeth was my favorite name. If I wasn't careful, other me would figure out who I was. The danger wasn't directly from my other self. It was from whoever was controlling her. Or whoever was maneuvering her...

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Home in Lagrange (part 1)

Flint, along with about 15,000 other people, lived in the _bernal sphere_-type space habitat of _new concord 1_ (or nc1), a massive structure built at earth's l1 lagrange point, one of a pair of such habitats, that pair being one of hundreds of others, either

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